Rosetta "Rose" McLAUGHLIN

  General Notes:

Photo: Wearing a cherished locket, this is young Rose McLaughlin, who became the wife of Charles Lavern Allum. The couple married in 1918.

Photo from DeeAnna Allum Granston


1892 BIRTH of Rosetta McLaughlin ("Rose" and "Rosa")

1895 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Franklin Township (no date) ("Rosie," age 2, born in "Des Moines County, Iowa")

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Franklin Township (June 28) ("Rosa," age 7, is with her parents)

1903 DEATH of grandfather, Charles McLaughlin

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Franklin Township, P. O. Sperry (no date) ("Rosa McLaughlin") (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Yellow Springs Township, Mediapolis (April 13) ("Rose," age 17, is in the household of her elder sister Mary Ann and Mary Ann's husband, Henry Shepherd)

1911 DEATH of father, William McLaughlin

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Polk County, Des Moines, Ward 3 (no date) ("Rose McLaughlin," born in Iowa, father born in Pennsylvania, mother born in Illinois, is "seamstress"; she had completed 8 years of grammar school and 2 years of high school, can read and write, was single in 1915, church affiliation Catholic) (Rose's age on this census is 28, but she would actually have been 22 or 23) (NOTE: This may or may not be the Rose McLaughlin of this web page. Her father was born in Ireland, not Pennsylvania, but her father and his parents had indeed lived in Pennsylvania after immigrating and before migrating west to Iowa)

1918 MARRIAGE of Rose McLaughlin and Charles Lavern Allum on July 3 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Burlington (January 3 & 5) ("Charles L.," age 21, "Baggage [handler], Railroad) (wife "Rose C.," age 24)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa, Des Moines County, Burlington (January 1) ("Charles L. Allum" and "Rose Allum," both age 28, daughter Dorothy, age 5, and son Jack, age 3)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Scott County, Davenport (April 8) ("Charles," age 33, "Messenger, Express") (wife "Rose," age 34) (daughter Dorothy, age 10, and son Jack, age 8)

1941 DEATH of mother, Mary Ann (Counihan) McLaughlin

1957 DEATH, Rose (McLaughlin) Allum, at 65 years 1 month 21 days

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1973 DEATH of husband, Charles Lavern Allum, at 75 years 3 months 26 days


See " Charles Lavern Allum " for additional information




OBITUARY (Rose) from THE DAILY TIMES, Davenport, Iowa, November 20, 1957:


MRS. CHARLES ALLUM

Mrs. Charles Allum, 61, of 3631 Orchard Ave., Davenport, died at 8:55 a.m. today in Mercy Hospital after a brief illness.

The former Rose McLaughlin was born Sept. 30, 1891 (the year is incorrect--DeeAnna), in Dodgeville, Iowa. She attended schools in Burlington and the Burlington Business College. She was married to Mr. Allum July 3, 1918, in Centerville. She had been employed as a secretary to the K&A Truck Lines, Inc., Bettendorf. Mrs. Allum was a member of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, the Altar and Rosary Society there and the Eagles Auxiliary, No. 235.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 8:30 a.m. in the Runge Chapel and at 9 a.m. in St. Alphonsus Church. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park.

The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home.



PHOTOGRAPHS:

Rosetta "Rose" (McLaughlin) Allum, First Communion at St. Mary Catholic Church, Dodgeville, Des Moines County, Iowa, September, 1904
Entrance to Memorial Park Cemetery, Davenport, Iowa
Gravemarker for Rose Allum, 1897-1957 (Rose was born in 1892)
Views of Memorial Park Cemetery



MISCELLANEOUS:

Funeral card for Mrs. Charles Allum, died November 20, 1957

Rosetta married Charles Lavern ALLUM, son of Louis Rex ALLUM and Lake Winona MATTHEWS, on July 3, 1918 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa. (Charles Lavern ALLUM was born on January 9, 1898 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, died on May 5, 1973 in Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois and was buried on May 8, 1973 in Davenport Memorial Park Cemetery, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa.)